Recently, three articles have appeared on AlterNet.org describing how police officers assaulted three men with disabilities and/or people assisting them. In the first, dated October 9, Emily Shire wrote about how a young man with Down syndrome with an IQ of 40 died of asphyxiation outside of a movie theater in Frederick County, Maryland during a confrontation with three off-duty police officers after his aide had warned them about his condition. On October 15, Alex Kane wrote about how four…..
I spend most Monday evenings between August and May attending rehearsals of the Columbia Chorale, a community chorus of people who live in and around Columbia, Missouri. During the past couple of years, we have been performing primarily works written in the past 100 years, including premiering two compositions last February.
On October 12th and 13th, we will be continuing this tradition by performing an extraordinary cantata entitled “Songs of Children,” written by Robert Convery and premiered in 1991. We…..
A transcript of a September 20 National Public Radio (NPR) story highlighting a good deed of a Dairy Queen manager grabbed my attention.
The manager, Joey Prusak, noticed a woman putting a twenty-dollar bill into her wallet that a blind man had accidentally dropped. When she refused Mr. Prusak’s request to return the money, he refused to serve her and gave the blind customer twenty dollars from his own pocket. Another customer reported the good deed to Dairy Queen by…..